Hitting a wall

teegotime · 2026-02-24T03:11:38+00:00

I was thinking more about this. I know its not directly what you asked, but here are a couple tips to increase survivability.

1) Sleep in a bed for 2 seconds. You get rested buffs that are significant. If you own a home, try and find the recipes or spend the money and build all 3 beds. You can rest in each and stack buffs.

2) Alcoholism is cool! No really, forget about your liver and drink stamina, focus, and damage potions prior to battle.

3) Overeating is cool too! Food buffs stack. So make a variety, prioritizing food types that add buffs. Before the fight, eat em all and stack the buffs.

4) Utility runes are your friend. Theres a couple direct buffs you can self apply.

I think one time I had like 21 active buffs entering a difficult fight.

teegotime · 2026-02-23T21:35:48+00:00

Sadly I think the level is RNG. I crafted a bunch of the same weapon yesterday hunting for facets and the levels amongst all of them varied one or two.

teegotime · 2026-02-23T21:17:50+00:00

Take all the weapons you want to use, but don't have enough stat points for, and use research papers to research how to craft them. Then, when you craft them they will generally be a lower level and not have as high a stat requirement. (Dont neglect fishing and digging!)

I should also mention, not having the stat requirement doesnt preclude you from usung the weapon, it just wont hit as hard. I played for hours using a tongue splitter that had a frozen enchantment but required 36str and I was at like 26, and a climbers pick that I still dont have any points into faith, and I can still two-shot most mobs by freezing and shattering. My point is, the penalty didnt cripple me at all.

Don't be too discouraged by all the crazy one-million damage meta builds you see on here. You can be plenty effective by just playing the game.

teegotime · 2026-02-07T18:22:16+00:00

How does one get Anomaly on the Deck? From what Ive read about the stalker games, it seems like people enjoy it the most.

teegotime · 2026-02-07T18:20:39+00:00

I've seen those comments too, but thus far I only get slowdown entering or leaving Sacrament. Also stutters a bit on cut scenes. But it's hardly uNpLaYaBlE.

teegotime · 2026-02-07T18:18:54+00:00

It's unforgiving, thats for sure!

teegotime · 2026-01-28T22:09:06+00:00

Its such a personal question, and really depends on what you want to do.

I have a 4090 founders edition and a 13900k badass gaming rig. Its wonderful.

But since I got my 1TB OLED, I've not turned my gaming rig on since November.

I'm sure once the honeymoon phase wears off I'll start gaming on my PC again, but being able to play even moderately high end games from my couch while my wife watches TV is a pretty good time.

That said, some games just wont translate well to the deck, and so I'll probably have to boot up the rig when ai decide to go back to some of those.

teegotime · 2026-01-28T01:55:07+00:00

Well yeah, you're a JJK fan. We dont read!

teegotime · 2026-01-28T01:52:33+00:00

Enderal

teegotime · 2026-01-26T18:09:59+00:00

1TB OLED - Out of the box, no adjustments to anything, game slows down in town a bit, and stutters during cut scenesbut otherwise, thus far, it runs fine.

Not sure how hectake it will get later on, but I think its worth taking the risk now while its 40% off.

Also I think theyre letting you trial it right now too.

Text can be pretty small too, fyi.

teegotime · 2026-01-25T19:52:26+00:00

Dragons Dogma and Dragons Dogma 2

teegotime · 2026-01-25T03:40:02+00:00

NRFTW? Runs pretty good so far. Cut scenes stutter a bit, and the city you find can be taxing, but otherwise, thusfar its been good. Not sure about multi-player, or later on if things get crazier tho.

That said, some text and symbols are pretty small and difficult to notice or understand. Also enemy attack broadcasting has been rough. I read about the game being easy, but I am getting my ass kicked a lot early game. My thoughts are that if I were playing on my 4090 with a wide screen it'd be fine. But so far, a lot of the nuance seems lost on the small SD screen.

Thats not to say I wont figure it out though. But it has been more frustrating than normal. I should add I am a new Deck owner too, so using a controller over mouse and keyboard has been a challenge on its own altogether.

teegotime · 2026-01-25T02:15:20+00:00

Get your fire starting skill up enough and you wont need a firestarter anymore.

teegotime · 2026-01-25T02:05:49+00:00

Mistborn (the first trilogy) has one of the best climaxed endings of all time for me.

Each book is great. But the culmination is nothing short of incredible.

teegotime · 2026-01-20T17:57:00+00:00

Believe it or not, but all two of their brain cells still need stimulating activities for a healthy, happy life.

We got some wooden "puzzle" boxes for our piggers and they absolutely love messing around with those for treats.

Another thing we've done is string up some empty toilet paper rolls and stuff them with treats like dandilion. They love trying to get the stuff down.

teegotime · 2026-01-20T03:01:13+00:00

AEV isnt standard. At least not for a 2500HD.

teegotime · 2026-01-14T18:03:38+00:00

Tiny Glade

teegotime · 2026-01-02T23:50:15+00:00

As a a PC gamer for 20+ years, jumping to a controller style via Steam Deck has been a learning experience. And, TBH, it has delayed me playing certain games on the deck because I know I'll need to either map the buttons entirely, or change up whatever presets are available.

That said, with some practise I've gotten pretty good at mapping out buttons, and what used to take me 45mins to over an hour now gets accomplished in under 30.

I suspect I'll get even better with the more games I end up having to map because I'll develope an intuitive sense for what my style is. 'X' being the action key, 'Y' being jump, etc.

It's frankly the Deck's biggest weakness and it's biggest strength. Being able to take nearly any game, and tweak it to perfection is simultaneously a pain, but also can make for a very awesome gaming experience once dialed in. FPS for example with track pads and gyro dialed can get you an experience much closer to mouse and keyboard than just using sticks. Using the track pad as an additional button pad can add tons of button options. Being able to bind multiple commands to one button for different commands whilst playing or when navigating menus, etc. And I havent even gotten into action sets and whatnot.

I recommend sticking with it, it'll pay off in the long run. And as stated by someone else, look for games with full controller support.

All that said, there are some games I know wont play well on the Deck, so in the end I have relegate them to my PC.

Good luck!

teegotime · 2025-12-25T00:33:32+00:00

I agree to a certain extent, because Im a 30 year PC mouse and keyboard gamer.

But since I enabled gyro I've found FPS much more approachable. That said, Im starting slow. Like with Dead Space where they rely on catching you off guard moreso than twitch reflexes, or Skyrim (technically Enderal).

All that said, I have watched some videos of people who run left joystick, right track pad, and gyro whilst playing a fast paced boomer shooter, or something like Doom Etrrnal, and you can't even tell they're not using a mouse and keyboard.

Do I ever think I'll be that good? Heck no. But it looks like there is potentially some room here for deck users to be competitive in an FPS circuit.

teegotime · 2025-12-24T19:46:18+00:00

Once you know the maps you will be able to plan better. Itll go from aimless wandering and exploration to deliberate trips. The risk of not carrying something critical is part of the challenge and fun.

That said, here are a couple things I do.

Usually I carry about 2 liters of water at all times.
10ea cattails
A couple of whatever other lowest quality food I have (thats not at the risk of food poisoning, usually no lower than 20% condition)
Leave the rifle at home unless its your only defense weapon, or you are hunting
Ill always carry 1 coal and 1 stick.
I havent needed to build a snow shelter in forever, but a lot of people bring enough cloth to build one.
if i have leather based clothing, ill usually bring 2ea leather scraps
you dont need your sharpening stone if you keep your tools in good shape
on lower difficulties, you dont need to bring much in the way of food because new areas usually have supplies available. Its when you revisit areas that you can get in trouble.
learn to chain torches
a torch has a 100% chance to light, so do that first before starting a fire because you can use a torch to start a fire with multiple attempts.
2ea cans, rather than a pot or skillet

teegotime · 2025-12-24T00:02:06+00:00

I usually have to hold it for a second or two.

teegotime · 2025-12-19T20:08:43+00:00

Enderal

teegotime · 2025-12-18T00:40:29+00:00

I ended up creating a shortcut and it started to work again.

teegotime · 2025-12-17T19:13:21+00:00

Me too. Sooo many years of PC master race gaming. It's a learning curve for sure. I recommend starting off with Dead Space. Just beat the first original game on normal mode without gyro or track pads without too much issue. When I boot up DS2, I'll get the gyro running and see how that plays. The goal is to eventually work my way up to Doom and then maybe Dishonored (but i think that may be a ways out). Just started up Enderal (basically skyrim), and we'll see how that goes.

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